For those looking for an economical, lightweight AR-based carbine, the new American Tactical Alpha meets that demand. It weighs […]. Comment s. Click to share on Facebook Opens in new window Click to share on Twitter Opens in new window Click to share on Pinterest Opens in new window Click to email this to a friend Opens in new window. Magnum Origins The Registered Magnum had a specially heat-treated cylinder and case-head recesses to improve its overall strength. Stay in the know with the Personal Defense World newsletter Sign-up today!
Sign up for our newsletter Sign Up. Up Next. Walther has you covered! Athlon Outdoors Network. This cartridge started the " Magnum " era of handgun ammunition. At the time, the. Thus, the only external difference in the two cartridges is a slight difference in length, solely for safety purposes as explained below.
Much credit for the. Keith's early work in loading the. Since the frame, cylinder, and barrel were much stronger than the standard. The Keith bullet also employed a large, flat meplat , thus enabling rapid energy transfer for greater wounding properties.
At the same time, this bullet design does not deform like a hollow point, and as a result achieves greater penetration. These characteristics of the Keith bullet make it very suitable for hunting applications as well as target shooting.
The case extension was more a matter of safety than of necessity. Because the. The choice of bullet for the. Winchester, however, upon experimenting further during the cartridge development, modified the Sharpe bullet shape slightly, while keeping the Sharpe contour of the bullet. The final choice of bullet was hence based upon the earlier Keith and Sharpe bullets, while additionally having slight differences from both.
This cartridge is regarded by many as an excellent self-defense round. The hollow point version enjoys a reputation of being the gold standard of stopping power among handgun cartridges and an "extremely reliable one shot stopper. Still, it is a fine small and medium game round and will kill deer very reliably at reasonable ranges if the right loads grains 9.
Note that. The bullet diameter for both is. The popularity of the. Remington loads for the Maximum boasted impressive velocities of over fps with grain bullets and over fps with grain bullets.
But after losing popularity due to gas cutting issues, this chambering was eventually dropped by all manufacturers. Brass is however still available. Performance To begin with, it must be understood that the. This cartridge does its best work when loaded with fast expanding hollow point bullet types. A bullet that sheds some weight is also highly useful in the. Having said this, such a bullet needs a good amount of weight to begin with if it is achieve acceptable penetration..
It is also critical to understand that most. When selecting a hunting load, it is important to match the bullet weight and construction to the job at hand. As a general guide to performance, the. At impact velocities of to fps, game hit with a fast expanding hollow point tend to react in a drunken manner, often attempting to run but not generally making too much ground before succumbing quickly to blood loss.
Between and fps, dead runs may be longer but wounding is still somewhat disproportionate to caliber. Again, bullet weights must be matched to the job at hand.
If the bullet is too heavy, it may not meet enough resistance to render a wide wound at low velocities. If the bullet is too light, it may not have enough energy to render a deep and broad wound on larger bodied animals.
At impact velocities of fps and below, bullet expansion may be fully evident, yet wounding can be narrow proportionate to the expanded caliber of the bullet and blood trails poor.
At these velocities and in the absence of any major hydraulic force, the. Bullets with deep skives along with very deep and broad hollow points can prove the most effective for generating fast bleeding wounds at these very low impact velocities. At low velocities, it is important to try to keep shots well forwards in at attempt to break bone. As a contrast to this, if a rear lung shot is taken, although the bullet may expand, the blood may drain to the bottom of the chest, not out through the exit wound as might be expected.
Depending on the bullet design, most jacketed hollow point handgun bullets will continue to expand down to impact velocities of around fps with good bullet designs such as the XTP continuing to display some level of expansion down to impact velocities of fps. Nevertheless, best performance occurs at impact velocities at or above fps. Come along and enjoy the first Magnum, the. The original. A classy feature of the Model 27 is the fineline checkering found on the top strap and barrel rib.
As the checkering on the top of a Model 27 is observed, one literally feels he has traversed back into a time when guns were lovingly assembled more by the hands of skilled craftsmen and less by machine.
In the 's, Bill Jordan, then of the U. Border Patrol, began to beat the drum for a smaller, lighter. The result was the mating of the K-frame. The resulting model, the. Jordan originally devised the K-frame Magnum as one to be practiced with using. Since the vast majority of my loads through Model 19's have been cast bullets, I have never experienced any problems with mine. In fact, when I shot the Sheriff's Department Qualification Course with the little 19 and even after years of use, it turned in a perfect x score.
The L-frame falls somewhere in between the K- and N-frames with a 4 inch, fully loaded weighing in at 43 ounces. SO the weighs only one ounce less than the N-frame. And most importantly Smith and Wesson retained the K-frame grip size. It is very difficult for men and women who have small hands, including peace officers, to control the larger N-frame Smith.
This load is too hot today for most guns as has changed through the years and is better suited for grain bullets with So out came my old standby load, Keith's original load of. This bullet is used in. The Single Action would be resurrected in ; the New Service has stayed buried.
The first Colt. Every kid of the time period knew that cartoon cop Dick Tracy carried a Colt. Then as so often happens, one gun, destined to be one of the all time classic guns, started out as something else. Target shooting with. The result was a very heavy revolver, so the barrel was give a figure 8 silhouette when viewed from the muzzle end, the rib received slots to further cut weight, someone decided to chamber it in.
So with a series of changes, what was to be the ultimate.
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